PSYC 510
DESCRIPTIVE M A IETHODS SSIGNMENT NSTRUCTIONS
OVERVIEW
This is designed to assess your understanding of Homework:Descriptive Methods Assignment
the concepts and applications covered thus far in this course. In this particular module, you have
learned about more introductory concepts for the least powerful of research designs – descriptive
methods.
INSTRUCTIONS
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Homework:Descriptive Methods Assignment Homework:Descriptive Methods . This
Assignment is worth 60 points. Each question is worth 3 points each. Six points are awarded for
mechanics/structure.
Part I contains general concepts from this module’s . Learn section
Part II requires use of SPSS. You have a break this module from new SPSS concepts!
Part III is the cumulative section. These may include short answer and/or use of SPSS but
will review material from previous module(s).
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Homework:Descriptive Methods Assignment.
Part I: General Concepts
These questions are based on the concepts covered in this module’s
assigned readings and presentations.
Apply concepts from this week to answer each of the following questions about populations and samples.
1. Describe a you would like to population
work with after earning your graduate
degree in psychology.
A population that I would like to work with after earning my graduate
degree in psychology is the elderly population who are born between
the 1930s and 1940s.
2. Describe a stratified sampling technique
you could use to reflect your target
population identified in the first question.
(Explicitly state the strata and list at least
two subsamples of that strata). Do NOT
The stratified sampling technique that I can use for reflecting the
identified target population can be based on ethnicity.
The two subsamples of the strata are African American and
Caucasian.
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use any examples from this week.
3. Describe a cluster sampling technique
you could use to reflect your target
population identified in the first question
(NOT used in any examples this week).
Provide enough details so that the
sampling technique is differentiated from
others in your assigned reading.
The cluster sampling technique that can be used to reflect the target
population can be based on retirement communities in Jacksonville.
The population can be interviewed in two of the communities.
4. How are stratified and cluster sampling
techniques ? similar
The similarity between stratified and cluster sampling techniques is
that both of them utilize subgroups.
5. How are stratified and cluster sampling
techniques ? different
The difference between stratified and cluster sampling techniques is
that while the subgroups in the stratified sampling technique have
